[Bug network/12926] getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever

[fweimer at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12926

--- Comment #13 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Carlos O'Donell from comment #11)

> How can we assume all supported kernels from 2.6.32 and up are not
> vulnerable? AFAIK glibc has to be defensive in this case.

We could probably make an exception here.  In general, I really dislike the
idea of working around kernel security bugs, but this might be an exception. 
(Although there are likely corner cases the libc check won't cover.)

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